January 10, 2013

C. S. Lewis and Reading

On looking down one's nose at certain kinds of literature:

"The Puritan conscience works on without the Puritan theology—like millstones grinding nothing; like digestive juices working on an empty stomach and producing ulcers. The unhappy youth applies to literature all the scruples, the rigorism, the self-examination, the distrust of pleasure, which his forebears applied to the spiritual life; and perhaps soon all the intolerance and self-righteousness."

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The Red Margins

Red is the color of the editor's pen. Margins are the place where readers, from medieval monks to modern-day grad students, add their contributions to existing artworks. Both represent, essentially, our own two cents.